Egbert van Heemskerck - 18th Century Oil The Cobbler and his Family

A cobbler is depicted in his humble workshop, with his wife nursing their baby in the background. This charming domestic scene captures the intimate character and everyday life favoured by Dutch Golden Age genre painters. The composition is inspired by a seventeenth-century work by Dutch genre painter Egbert van Heemskerck (1610–1680), which was sold at Sotheby's in 2019. An indistinct monogram and date are faintly visible to the lower left, and the work is well presented in an ornate gilt frame. On canvas on stretchers.